30 years ago today: Myung-Woo Yuh vs. Hisashi Tokushima

"Sonagi (Rainfall)" was seasoned here, a few days after his 26th birthday, in his fifteenth (of eighteen total, helping ensure the South Korean eventually breezed his way into the IBHOF the first time he appeared on the ballot) defense of the WBA junior flyweight title, but the bloom had not yet fallen off the rose. He was here at the height of his cautious-swarming, in-and-out, alternately volume-flurrying-up-top and heavy-body-thrashing powers.

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Tokushima was certainly not Yuh's greatest challenger (and this defense would be followed directly and overshadowed by two consecutive ones against Leo Gámez) but he was a former Japanese national straw-weight and future Oriental & Pacific flyweight titlist. He brought a decent snappy jab and some quick legs, and did well to last as long as he did. Yuh at this point was simply too much for any non-elite (and indeed his only ever professional defeat 23 months later, against Kazuto Ioka's uncle Hiroki, came via SD and was immediately avenged).

Tokushima looks downright miserable in that seventh round. I'm frankly shocked he bothered ever lacing up again.